Effective Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Requires Clinical Expertise

Effective Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Requires Clinical Expertise

BackgroundDeep brain stimulation (DBS) is an innovative treatment for severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Electrodes implanted in specific brain areas allow clinicians to directly modulate neural activity. DBS affects symptomatology in a completely different way than established forms of tre...

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Main Authors: Maarten van Westen, Erik Rietveld, Damiaan Denys
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
obsessive-compulsive disorder
deep brain stimulation
evaluation
decision-making
clinical expertise
radical embodied cognitive science
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02294/full

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